Comments on: Bad Blur Jobs

By: Roger Herbert

Roger Herbert — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The new features look nice, but I’d also like to see the existing package firmed up a bit. Here’s hoping it’s not such a performance hog on the mac as mx2004.

I was a bit gutted last year when I transferred my licence across from the pc only to find it ran considerably slower on a supposedly superior processor (1.6 GHz Athlon vs 1.8 GHz G5) :/

By: Bolan

Bolan — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Correction- I believe that functionality is part of code collapse. DW8 looks sweet.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That’s a real nice thing, hehe. Well, maybe one should stop programming after some hours sitting in front of the monitor. So I should probably stop now… Yeah, I should.

By: Joshua Kendall

Joshua Kendall — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Code collapse just finally made my brain realize that I need to get Studio 8.

By: Geof Harries

Geof Harries — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s hoping they include a drag ‘n drop ~blink~ tool.

By: gray ghost

gray ghost — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now my only question is if they were able to add functionality such that Dreamweaver can open up Sharepoint Portal Server team sites for editting them natively like Frontpage 03 offers…

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Heh. No long comment. That’s just funny.

By: Collin

Collin — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I doubt Homesite was the first to think of collapsing code. Even if they were, I never said VS.Net “invented” code collapse. But the similarities are obvious. Did Homesite have a square placed around a piece of the code followed by “…” ? I don’t remember that from HS.

I’ve seen code collapse in many apps.. My favorite editor, UltraEdit, has that feature. But unlike VS, and now DW, UltraEdit doesn’t collapse quite as nice.

Jonathan, I really didn’t think many people used UltraEdit. For those who don’t know about it. It’s like Notepad on steroids. Has nice tabbed files, code color formatting and a load of features that you don’t see anywhere. The best or worst part is that the layout isn’t the most intuitive so it can be hard to find what menu holds what feature sometimes. The flip side of the coin is that there is no bulky UI to get in the way.. load up 10, 20, 30.. files and run macros, global search and replace with some nice S&R options. It’s a no-bs tool.

By: Neill Harmer

Neill Harmer — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hmmmm, if they just added this, the feature was another one “borrowed” from Macromedia Homesite (formerly Alaire Homesite) — great feature, surprised DreamWeaver did not think of it sooner.

By: Jonathan Snook

Jonathan Snook — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For the most part, I use UltraEdit (which has line wrap, columnar select and code folding) but I love Dreamweaver’s search and replace features. Plus, the templating works well when I need to build a large static site (yeah, I’ve done static sites with 1000+ pages). I’m looking forward to DW8… I hope they’ve been able to improve performance.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t see why I would want to load up a memory hog when a powerful text editors with macros, ftp and other goodies built in will work just as good.

I suppose it depends on the types of sites your building. I use DW’s templating features extensively, and there’s nothing in any text editor that compares. Library items are another nice touch. Plus, let’s say I have several versions of a template for different areas of a site (likely nested templates), and I decide to move one of the site sections to a new directory…Just drag and drop the folder in the tree view, and any page/template pointing to that directory (or any files inside the directory) will be updated automatically. Nice!

I also like having an entire suite of O’Reilly reference books as built-in help files.

I always turn on the accessibility features, so I’m forced to enter ALT text for images; summaries, captions, etc. for data tables; etc. Makes it impossible to forget, or to convince yourself “I’ll come back and add that stuff later…”

Also, I love the tag completion and attribute popups (or whatever they’re called.) Start typing a tag, and all available attributes show up for easy selection. Start typing “class=” or “id=” on an element, and all available CSS definitions show up for easy selection.

As for bloat, I guess I just don’t notice it. I s’pose a dual processor G5 with a gig of RAM helps out in that regard ;-)

By: Bill Rawlinson

Bill Rawlinson — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Code Folding This is also availble in CFEclipse

If DW8 supports:

line wrap
columnar select
and code folding

then I’ll be stoked. But just code folding (and probably line wrap) isn’t enough to get me to switch back to the bloated mass that is DW.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I agree that this has become an expected piece of functionality. I work insided of eclipse and know that the free plugin from Exadel studios http://www.exadel.com/ has this feature. It's been around for a while inside of Java IDEs.

By: miko

miko — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think I can make out the name… “adobestockbroker@”

By: coda

coda — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

R.I.P. HomeSite?